| Subject: Re: McAfee vs SETI@home version 3.08 |
| From: Jan Knutar |
| Date: 23/07/2004, 06:33 |
Stratcat wrote:
Linux is generally less vulnerable to attack, and less often the
target of an attack, 'cuz most script kiddies are writing for M$ OS's.
A few years ago the situation was reversed, before these mass-trojans and
viruses with trojan/drone functionality came, the most desired box was a
*nix one, since they would mosto ften be online 24/7, and on a fast link.
That time of course gave *nix the test of fire, so to speak. Atleast,
that's what I think :-)